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Clinical Articles /
BY: Amanda Hill, MBChB, FRCPC
March 2017
... with the risk of MACE after cardiac surgery (odds ratio, 4.89).[ 3 ] Moreover, preoperative frailty assessment was ... (CI 70% to 90%) and a specificity of 84% (CI 77% to 89%).[ 4 ] Four or more characteristics predicted 6-month ... nursing facility. Patients not assessed as frail had a 4.2-day hospital stay, 19.5% postoperative complication rate, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Agatha Jassem, PhD, (D)ABMM, FCCM
June 2017
... detection of IgM antibodies becomes reliable only 3 to 4 days after symptom onset. For vaccinated individuals, IgM ... parainfluenza viruses, adenovirus, and enterovirus,[ 4 ] as well as influenza[ 5 ]). —Agatha Jassem, PhD, ...
Premise /
BY: Paul Winston, MD, FRCPC
September 2017
... make people disabled after back injury. Chou and Shekelle[ 4 ] have noted that the most helpful indicators for ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jerry C. Chen, MD, FRCSC
October 2017
... prevention, even in patients with class C5 to C6 disease.[ 4 ] Different levels of compression are available: 10 to 15 ... and n-butyl-2 cyanoacrylate closure (n-BCA) ( Table 4 ). EVLA and RFA are heat-based methods that cauterize the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Leo Lai, MD, FRCPC
April 2017
... symptoms or the most harm should be withdrawn first. Step 4: Plan and initiate withdrawal A deprescribing protocol ... (3) determining if medications can be withdrawn, (4) planning and initiating withdrawal, and (5) monitoring and ...
Letters
June 2017
It is unclear how the author inferred an increase from 3.4% to 12.1% in drivers who tested positive for cannabis only, ... it appears that the increase was actually from 3.4% in 2005 to 7.7% in 2014, much less than what is reported ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Nirvana Kiarostami, AuD, RAUD, Aud(C)
December 2017
... loss. According to Statistics Canada, approximately 4.6 million Canadians aged 20 to 79 have hearing ... is worse at those frequencies than at 250 Hz to 2 kHz.[ 3,4 ] Noise causes hearing loss most rapidly during the first ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Damon Ramsey, MD
December 2017
... wheel” in the sacred doctor-patient relationship.4 The positive IT transformation seen in industries such as ...
Letters /
BY: R.A. Rockerbie, PhD
January/February 2017
... legalization in Washington. In Colorado it increased by 3.4% between 2005 and 2013, and climbed to a 12.1% increase ... in fatalities. In view of the random annual variation of ±4.7% in the 4 years preceding marijuana legalization, the association ...